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Mindful care: Mindfulness as a resource for family and professional caregivers

  • Tonino Cantelmi
  • Maria Beatrice Toro
  • Francesca Boldrini
Submitted
febbraio 10, 2020
Published
2020-02-10

Abstract

In a world that appears unable to build up sound and sincere relationships, individual identities struggle in search for an adequate space to exist, express themselves and thrive. In front of a so deeply restricted “way of living”, that finds its satisfaction in an extreme “self-celebration”, the ideas of “being with” the others and “being there with the others” appear to be hardly achievable experiences.
Right now, the recovering of self-awareness by virtue of mindfulness definitely represents a worthy resource. Living knowingly “here and now” allows to listen yourself, prior to paying specific attention to others; it allows to raise one’s being in order to “live for the other” in a close encounter which proves sincere and devoid of any judgement. This attitude proves particularly valuable when the beholder requires participation and care, at whatever level, by professional, and often familiar, caregivers.

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